System and Method For Providing Technology-Driven End-to-End Managed Security Service Products Through a Security Marketplace

Abstract

A platform provides customers with complete and compelling consumption-based service while using the information it gathers to improve the customer's experience. This capability includes cloud integration to monitor the customer's cloud workload which is then used to identify risks and make recommendations on how to mitigate those risks through the management of the customer's security infrastructure. The platform relies upon third party security products from independent security vendors to provide the technology that forms the platform's security portfolio. Through the platform's web-based vendor portal, each vendor maintains its own product information including features sets, target customer demographics, applicable software stacks, compliance / regulatory capabilities and pricing. By cross referencing this product information with specific customer information, the platform can intelligently promote the correct products and capability upgrades at the right time to the right customers.

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CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS[0001]The present application claims the benefit of priority to similarly titled U.S. Provisional Patent Application 62 / 013,147 filed Jan. 14, 2015, the entirety of which is incorporated herein by reference.BACKGROUND[0002]1. Field of the Embodiments[0003]The present embodiments are generally directed to enterprise network and asset security. More particularly, the embodiments describe a cybersecurity marketplace.[0004]2. Description of Related Art[0005]As businesses adopt the ideas behind cloud computing, i.e., virtualization, pay-per-use pricing and rapid provisioning, there is a need for an accompanying platform to handle the marketing, sales, pre-sales requirements gathering, fulfillment, management and operations of the security solutions that accompany those business applications, including monitoring and matching of vendor solutions with customer needs in an efficient, secure manner.[0006]There is a need for a platform that provides a fu...

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Benefits of technology

The platform described in this patent allows organizations to provide a consumption-based service to customers while using information gathered to improve their experience. It integrates with cloud services to monitor customer workload and identify risks, recommending ways to mitigate them. The platform uses third-party security products from independent vendors, with information about features and capabilities cross-referenced with customer data to promote the correct products at the right time. The platform also allows security vendors to learn from user data and adjust their products for better protection. Overall, the platform automates the provisioning and tracking of cloud-based security products to protect an organization's digital assets.

Problems solved by technology

Such threats arise, for example, from customer employees who sign up for non-standard services and use web tools outside the enterprise information technology structure.

Such events often result in the inadvertent disclosure of sensitive business information and intellectual property.

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